Steam or hot-water radiator.



No. 629,223. Patented July 18,1899.

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(Application filed Sept. 7, 1898.)

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CHARLES 1r. WALTHER, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

STEAM OR'HOT-WATEYR" RADVIATCJ) R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of iietters ,Patent No. 629,223, dated July 18, 1899.

Application filed $eptemher7, 1893. Serial No. 690,426. {No model.)

To all whom, ntrty concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. WAL'rnEn,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam or Hot-Water Radiators; and I do hereby declare that the followin'g is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention.

My invention relates to steam or hot-waterv radiators adapted to be placedand usedunder window-seatsthat is, the permanent now in vogue and at the same time so direct the air which is heated that it shall be discharged directly out into the room rather than upward against the underside of theseat.

The invention consists of a radiator made up of sections which are formed with external ribs or flanges arranged in a peculiar manner to accomplish the object of the invention, as will be hereinafter pointed out.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of a radiator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of one of the sections.

The seats which I have referred to cannot, for comfort, be more than eighteen inches high or above the floor upon their upper surfaces. About two inches are usually required for the woodwork of the seat, leaving but sixteen inches clearfor the radiator. A radiator to be at all efiicient should be at least fourteen inches high, so that at most there are but. two inches of space be'twcenthe radiator and the under surface of the seat, which is found to be too little for the ready escape of the air when the entire body of heated air is directed and discharged straight upward, and hence the circulation of the air between the radiatorsections is impeded. The arrangement of V air-directing ribs or flanges which I have de into the room before it reaches the seat.

on its concaved side.

;dow W. The radiatoris formed of a num- .ber'of hollow sections 2, united by suitable couplings and having steam or hot-water connections, which need not be shown or described, as they form no part of this invention. The sections 2 are preferably about square in outline and areprovided upon their side faces with air-directing ribs or flanges arranged so that all of the air which enters between the radiator-sections from below shallbe directed out into the room without coming in contact with the seat, while the air which may enter betweenthe sections from the space nextthe Wall, which" is relatively small in amount, shall be directed forward or toward the edge of the seat, though it is allowed to escape into the space between the great to cause much more than one-half of the outer face of the section to be included ribs 3, 3", and 4, 4, and 4 are arranged parallel with this curved. diagonally-arranged rib 3, the spaces between all these ribs opensides of the ribs 3, are provided with ribs 5 and 6, which incline upward and forward,

' the spaces between these ribs opening at their innerlower ends into the space between the wall and the radiator andat their upperx .ends into the space between the radiator and theseatI- It is to be understood that the ribs upon the opposing sides of adjacent sections comeopposite to each other, as represented in Fig. 1. I prefer that the ribs should be of two kinds, one set being hollow, so that they inclose a steamspace, as represented by the ribs 3, 3, and 3", (see Fig. 3,) while the other ribs 4, 4, and 4"are solid, merely fins or thin flanges of the metal of which the sections are composed. These two forms of ribs should be alternately arranged to secure the best re A number of other Which I have invented and. shown herein is I believe novel and possesses advantages over anything of which I have knowledge.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s v 1. A radiator formed of sections adapted to be connected together in series and provided on their adjacent faces with air-directing ribs or projections, such ribs being arranged as described, whereby practically the entire body of air taken from beneath the radiator is projected forward into the apartment, and is brought into contact with considerably more than half the heating-surfaces of the radiator-sections, such ribs consisting, as to each face, of a main rib, 3, extending from thelower rear corner of the section to the upper forward corner thereof With an upward curve, and a series of ribs substantially paral lel with the said main rib extending from the bottom edge of the radiator-section to the front edge thereof, and another series of ribs extending from the back edge of the radiatorsection to the top edge thereof, substantially as set forth.

2. A radiator formed of sections provided on their adjacent faces with air-directing ribs, the ribs of each section consisting of a diagonally-disposed main rib extending from the lower, rear corner to the upper, outer corner 'of the section, a set of ribs substantially parallel thereto extending from the bottom edge of the radiator-section to'the front edge thereof, and another set of ribs extending from the rear edge of the section to the top thereof, the said two sets of ribs being upon opposite sides of the diagonally-disposed main rib, in combination with a seat arranged above and close to the top of the radiator, substantially as set forth.

CHAS. F. XVALTHER. W'i tnesses:

GEO. B. COBB,

HARRY SEDGWIcK. 

